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New Report Examines How To Create Manufacturing Jobs

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A University of Virginia Miller Center commission, chaired by former Governors Haley Barbour and Evan Bayh, has released a report offering innovative, non-partisan and actionable ideas on creating manufacturing jobs, which have been an engine of well-paying, middle-class employment throughout U.S. Posted by Heidi Schwartz.

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Autodesk Expands Learning Resources to Boost Digital Skills of Construction Teams in the Office, Trailer and Field

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Autodesk’s Make It Real program: A community education program encouraging young people to apply design thinking to real problems related to construction and the built environment. Sixty-one percent of firms surveyed said their projects are being delayed because of workforce shortages. Autodesk is changing how the world is designed and made.

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Workforce Training: Engineering A Skilled Workforce

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Here’s the good news: most of the states (and the federal government) got the memo (Workforce Training is Job One) and they are moving aggressively to put in place innovative and highly effective workforce training programs that put forward-thinking businesses and higher education resources on the same team.

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Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

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The states that have put the assets in place today to support a thriving cybersecurity industry—including STEM-oriented higher education programs with cyber-specific degrees and R&D facilities working in tandem with national security agencies, the U.S. military and business—will rule the cyber sector tomorrow.

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State Focus – Utah: Consistently Excellent

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Utah’s Centers of Excellence Program funds viable research at the college and university level, bridging the gap between technological innovation and marketplace success. It provides training in specific technologies, computer skills, safety certification, leadership, management and team building.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Green.

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Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Green Guidelines and Certification for your Home. It might be that the certification will make the home more desirable for resale. July 21, 2009.

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COMMUNITY PROFILE: Opportunity Knocks in Southwest Louisiana

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McNeese State, located in Lake Charles, is the region’s largest educational provider and graduates a large segment of the area’s engineers and other technical support employees. For example a chemistry major would have the tools to become an innovate chemist. Sowela—also located in Lake Charles—began classes in 1940.